Score-book for the game of golf.



Patented Dec. 3|, |901.

C. SPARKS.

SCORE BUOK FUR THE GAME 0F GULF.

(Application tiled Mar. 30, 1901.)

(nb model.)

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UTTED STATES CHARLES SPARKS, OF ST. LOUIS,

PATENT OEEICE.

MISSOURI.

SCORE-BOOK FOR THE GAME OF GOLF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,123, dated December 31, 1901.

Application filed March 30, 1901.

To LZZ whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES SPARKS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Score-Books for the Game of Golf, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being` had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication.

My invention relates to a book for use in keeping a score or tally in playing the game of golf, the object of the invention being to produce a series of sectional tally-sheets for recording the number of strokes required by the players in depositing the ball in the successive holes over the course on which the game is played.

My invention consists `in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is a perspective view of the scorebook. Fig. II is a detail View of one of the sheets of the book.

1 designates the cover of the book, provided with spaces for the naines of the players and such other memoranda as it may be desired to place thereon.

2 designates the sheets, of which there are preferably two series, one for the outgoing trip on the course and the other for the incoming trip on the course. The sheets 2 bear consecutive numerals, 1, 2, 3, dac., that indicate the holes of the course over which the gaine is played, there being one sheet for each hole contained by the course. Each sheet 2 is divided up into two series of sections, one of said series of sections being indicated by 3 and the other series by 4. The sections 3 and et are numbered from l up to any desirable number, such as 14, as shown in the drawings, and they are adapted to be separated from each other on scored lines A, B, and C. One of the series of sections 3 or @t is designed to contain indication of one of the players and the other section contains indication of the other player, the indications being such as the words Self and Opponent, and thereby the scores or,

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tallies of the'players may be individually shown side by side.

The use of the score-book is as follows: When a player has,forinstance,begun a game and succeeded in getting the golf-ball into the Iirst hole of the course by a series of strokes, the sections 3 or 4t of his series on the book are torn from the sheet 2 corresponding to the number of the hole into which his ball has been deposited sufficiently to leave only the sections ore, bearing numerals corresponding to the number of strokes'required by the player in putting the ball into the hole. When the other player has put the ball into the hole, a portion of the series of sections is detached to leave only sections of the series on his side of the score-sheet corresponding to the number ofstrokes required by him in depositing the ball in the hole. To illustrate, reference may be had to Fig. I of the drawing and the irst sheet thereof relating to the iirst hole. I have there shown that the party keeping the score and indicated as Self succeeds in depositing the ball in the first hole with three strokes. All vof the sections 3 are torn off except those numbered 1, 2, and 3, thereby indicating the` number of strokes required iu reaching the first hole with the ball. The Opponent having deposited the ball in the first holein fourstrokes, a port-ion of the sections et is torn olf, leaving only the sections numbered up to 4, thereby indicating that the hole was reached with four strokes. The saine applies to the second sheet. Self is there indicated as having reached the second hole by striking the ball seven times and Opponent by striking it five times. It will be readily understood that the score of the strokes required in reaching the remainder of the holes is kept in the same manner as that described both in the outgoing trip on the course and on the incoming trip.

I claim as my invention- Agolf score-book comprising a series of consecutively-numbered sheets, one for each hole in the course, in and out, a series of perforated lines dividing each sheet into two series of sections, each series being numbered consecutively beginning with the number l of the players may be individually shown on l, each section Abeing separated from the onesheet for `bhe respectiveholes in the others by said lines of perforations, one secourse. ries of sections containing indications des- 5 gnetng one player- Whiie the other series In presence of of sections contain indications designating E. S. KNIGHT, another player whereby the scores or' tallies yN. V. ALEXANDER.

CHAS. SPARKS. 

